Could Florida Trucker Linked By DNA To 2 Murders Also Be Michigan Serial Killer?
A string of murders in Grand Rapids in the 1990s went unsolved, but police now wonder if they have their man.
There was more good news in the field of genetic genealogy this month after Michigan’s Kent County Sheriff’s Office announced it had solved not one but two cold case murders using the technology.
And in doing so, authorities may also have managed to crack a serial murder case that had perplexed investigators for decades — because the man now in custody might have been responsible for them all.
Sharon Kay Hammack
It was October 3rd 1996, and a delivery driver in Michigan’s South Kent County was about to make a grisly discovery. When he stopped at the side of the road to investigate a suspicious bundle, he found the body of 29-year-old Sharon Kay Hammack.
She had been raped, strangled, stabbed twice in the head and hog-tied before being rolled up in a blanket and dumped unceremoniously by a highway. Sharon had been pregnant with her third child when she died, and it’s thought her struggles with addiction had led to sex work, which in turn put her in the path of a predator.
